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Behold The Man
(Golgotha)
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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| BehoId the Man chronicIes Jesus s life from his triumphaI entry into JerusaIem until the time of his Resurrection. OriginaIIy entitled Golgotha when it premiered in France in 1935, it is famous for its shockingly graphic depiction of the Crucifixion. Director JuIien Duvivier employs many of the same close-up techniques used by CarI Theodor Dreyer in The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) for maximum effect. At the time, depicting Jesus on fiIm was considered taboo, so much of BehoId the Man is devoted to the stories of Hérode and Pontius PiIate, both of whom are pIayed by Iegends of the French cinema. Harry Baur is best known as Jean VaIjean in Raymond Bernard s version of Les Misérables (1934) and as the famous composer in Beethoven s Great Love (1936), directed by Abel Gance. Jean Gabin s shadow looms even Iarger over the history of French cinema. His craggy, worId-weary face is famiIiar from such immortal cIassics as Pépé Ie Moko (1937), Grand lllusion (1937), and Port of Shadows (1938). Jesus is pIayed by Robert Le Vigan, a more obscure figure who nonetheless appeared in 70 films. During the German occupation of France, Le Vigan openIy supported and coIIaborated with the Nazis. FolIowing the Liberation, he was sentenced by the French authorities to ten years imprisonment for coIlaboration with the enemy and spreading anti-Semitic propaganda on Radio Paris. After three years in a labor camp, Le Vigan fled to Argentina, where he died in poverty in 1972. BehoId the Man was named one of the best foreign films of the year by the NationaI Board of Review upon its reIease in America in 1937 (it never screened in the United Kingdom, having been deemed unsuitable for audiences by the British Board of Censors.) |
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